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Shiny Happy Corporate People
http://www.truth-out.org/shiny-happy-corporate-people/1313243063
Richard (RJ) Eskow, Campaign for America's Future: "Mitt Romney got a lot of press for telling a heckler at the Iowa State Fair that 'corporations are people'... Here's the paradox in this whole concept of 'corporate personhood.' When it comes to rights, Republicans say corporations are people. But when it comes to the responsibilities of personhood - like paying taxes, being sued for negligence or criminal manslaughter, that sort of thing - their response is 'Are you crazy? We're talking about corporations here, not people.'"
Twelve Unions Tell Democrats They'll Boycott Convention in N. Carolina
http://www.truth-out.org/twelve-unions-tell-democrats-theyll-boycott-convention-n-carolina/1313252475
Tim Funk and Kirsten Valle Pittman, McClatchy Newspapers: "Casting North Carolina as an anti-union bastion with 'regressive policies aimed at diluting the power of workers,' more than a dozen trade unions affiliated with the national AFL-CIO have told the Democratic National Committee that they will sit out the 2012 convention in Charlotte, N.C. Coming on the heels of some liberals' complaints that President Barack Obama is giving in to Republicans, the unions' decision is another sign that key Democratic allies are unhappy with Obama and other party leaders as they gear up for a difficult election season."
Israeli Tent Protests Ignore Link Between Neoliberalism, Occupation
http://www.truth-out.org/israeli-tent-protests-ignore-link-between-neoliberalism-occupation/1312913708
Max Ajl, Truthout: "Complaints started in response to rapid increases in the price of cottage cheese, moved on to the housing crisis and have spread to the general crisis: a country... which is the second-most-unequal industrialized democracy on the planet. It is yet early, but two things seem clear. One, this movement will not break the Israeli structure of power. Two, this is an early fracture - a foretaste of later ruptures - within Zionism."
Kansas' Planned Parenthood Defunding Faces Federal Scrutiny
http://www.truth-out.org/kansas-planned-parenthood-defunding-faces-federal-scrutiny/1313245537
Brad Cooper, McClatchy Newspapers: "Kansas' decision to take federal family planning funds away from Planned Parenthood has put the state in a vise. On one side, the state is facing a legal assault from Planned Parenthood, which contends it is being punished because it advocates for abortion rights. And Kansas is getting squeezed by the federal government, which is concerned about ensuring access to family planning services in certain areas of the state. If Kansas can't satisfy the government's concerns, it will be at risk of losing all or part of nearly $3 million in family planning funds."
Torture in the US Prison System: The Endless Punishment of Leonard Peltier
http://www.truth-out.org/torture-us-prison-system-endless-punishment-leonard-peltier/1312917659
Preston Randolph and Dan Battaglia, Truthout: "News reports from California's Pelican Bay Prison amplified the need for change, but after the three-week inmate hunger strike ended, the torture of solitary confinement continues nationwide... In 1977, American Indian activist Leonard Peltier was convicted of murdering two FBI agents during a shootout on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. Peltier has now served more than 35 years in federal prison. His trial remains one of the most controversial in the history of the American judicial system."
Could Unspent Stimulus Money Be Used to Fend Off a New Recession?
http://www.truth-out.org/could-unspent-stimulus-money-be-used-fend-new-recession/1313215873
Michael Grabell, ProPublica: "The nation's top economists are already giving odds on a double-dip recession... So, it seems all the more surprising that the federal government still has $100 billion to $150 billion in stimulus money left to spend. That's about as much as the Making Work Pay tax credit that gave $800 apiece to middle-class families in 2009 and 2010. And it's twice as much as Congress gave to states to stabilize budgets and save education jobs."
Quick Retribution in London Threatens Due Process for Thousands
http://www.truth-out.org/quick-retribution-london-threatens-due-process-thousands/1313253687
Bryan Gerhart, Colorlines: "As some Londoners exhale during a lull in the riots that have raged throughout the United Kingdom since Saturday night, others, particularly young Britons of color, face the hasty, heavy hand of the law. Whether the seemingly impulsive punishments continually doled out by British magistrates represent justice remains open for debate. Amidst intense public pressure, over 16,000 police officers are now on the streets of London. They've made more than 1,700 arrests... A majority of those arrested are minors, many of whom are being identified with footage from Britain's extensive network of CCTV cameras."
The Verizon Strike as the Next Wisconsin
http://www.truth-out.org/verizon-strike-next-wisconsin/1313216436
Mark Engler, Dissent: "The picket lines are up. This past weekend 45,000 Verizon workers on the East Coast, represented by the Communications Workers of America (CWA) and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW), went on strike.... Without a doubt, this is a conflict of national significance... The parallel to Wisconsin is apt for several reasons. First, like the Republican elected officials in their attacks on unionized schoolteachers and other public employees, Verizon is taking aim at one of the last bastions of the American middle class."
Will Tax Breaks for the Wealthy Trump the Common Good?: Choices Still to Be Made in the New Debt Deal
http://www.truth-out.org/will-tax-breaks-wealthy-trump-common-good-choices-still-be-made-new-debt-deal/1313249787
Donna Cooper and Seth Hanlon, Center for America Progress: "The compromise reached between Congress and President Obama last week requires $1 trillion in cuts from federal budget discretionary programs and an agreement to identify another $1.5 trillion in deficit reduction by Thanksgiving. But there is no agreement yet on closing tax breaks for the highest income Americans or ending tax subsidies that pad the bottom line of the most profitable companies - special tax breaks that were declared off the table by Republicans in the recent round of negotiations. Our chart details the choices still to be made."
Media is Growing More White. What's the FCC Doing About It?
http://www.truth-out.org/media-growing-more-white-what%E2%80%99s-fcc-doing-about-it/1313244498
Jason Smith, Colorlines: "The increasing lack of racial diversity in the U.S. media landscape is becoming a hot topic and putting pressure on policy makers to (finally) pay attention. s the American Society of Newspaper Editors has reported, racial and ethnic minorities make up less than 13 percent of newsroom employees. Minority ownership of television stations hovers around 3 percent, while radio station ownership is at 7 percent, despite the fact that the minority population of the U.S. is roughly 28 percent."
TRUTHOUT'S BUZZFLASH DAILY HEADLINES
How radical and cultish are the declared Republican candidates for president?
The answer is clear from a question that came 48 minutes into the FOX sponsored Iowa "debate" on Thursday.
According to a TIME magazine blog of the event, (http://swampland.time.com/2011/08/12/what-you-missed-while-not-watching-the-iowa-gop-debate/#ixzz1Upo3f7i7 ) the moderator, FOX's Bret Baier, asked "everyone to raise their hand if they would oppose a debt deal that offered $10 in spending cuts for every $1 in tax increases. Everyone raises their hand, though Pawlenty's hand bobs up and down a bit."
In one infamous moment of ignorant and cowardly group-think the radical and destructive financially anarchistic outlook of the GOP was revealed.
"No new taxes (or really no taxes)" has been the lynch mob call to arms (and votes) for national Republican candidates for years, but it has reached a feverish and pernicious pitch.
Think about it, all the GOP candidates for the presidency (and Rick Perry and Sarah Palin would have held their hands up too, you can be sure), would turn down, let's say, a trillion in cuts in federal spending if they had to also vote for just 1/10th of that amount in tax increases on millionaires and billionaires.
The rational responses to this craven tomfoolery are too numerous to detail in a short commentary. Suffice it to say, the anti-tax mantra has become a political/religious symbol that defies logic or common sense. In a time when the nation is beset by enormous financial problems, it is a placebo pill that removes the challenge of finding multi-faceted and inventive solutions to an immensely complex problem.
By raising their hands in unison in opposition to a modest increase in taxes on the most wealthy, big oil, and hedge funds (because that is whom a $1 in tax increases for $10 in revenue would likely affect), the GOP candidates affirmed themselves as snake oil salesmen. And snake oil doesn't cure anything; it only enriches the person selling it (or in this case, might help them attain the power to run America).
As the TIME blog noted at 121 minutes into the exchange in Iowa, "Baier mercifully ends it all."
But unfortunately, it was only the debate that concluded. The long delusional nightmare for America continues.
Mark Karlin
Editor, BuzzFlash at Truthout
Oy Vey: Rick Perry Officially Announces Run for President
Read the Article at The Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/13/rick-perry-for-president-_n_926139.html
US Censures Report on Drone Casualties
Read the Article at Al Jazeera
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2011/08/20118137276488676.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=Facebook&utm_campaign=FacebookPosting
San Francisco Subway Shuts Down Cell Service During Protest
Read the Article at CNet News
http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-20091822-245/s.f-subway-muzzles-cell-service-during-protest/
Cameron Recruits Ex-US Police Commissioner
Read the Article at Bloomberg
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-08-13/cameron-recruits-ex-u-s-police-commissioner-to-advise-on-riots.html
American Kidnapped From His House in Pakistan
Read the Article at The LA Times
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-pakistan-kidnapping-20110814,0,6132972.story
Syrian Tanks Deploy in Coastal Cities Amid Shooting
Read the Article at Yahoo! News
http://news.yahoo.com/syrian-tanks-deploy-coastal-city-amid-shooting-084035162.html;_ylt=AhiYOLYcJxD3XKWJN0Ia4a2s0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTM1c2RtajJpBHBrZwNiMDU0YzRmMS0zN2UzLTMwYTktOTFkMi0xMjY4MzYxYWZmNjUEcG9zAzIEc2VjA3RvcF9zdG9yeQR2ZXIDZWVjYWE4YTAtYzU5Ni0xMWUwLTk5ZjUtNjE2NTg0NTBlMTY0;_ylg=X3oDMTFvdnRqYzJoBGludGwDdXMEbGFuZwNlbi11cwRwc3RhaWQDBHBzdGNhdANob21lBHB0A3NlY3Rpb25zBHRlc3QD;_ylv=3?om_rid=DXn0aN&om_mid=_BORpmlB8ctKsQd
The Berlin Wall Turns 50, and Some Want to Rebuild It
Read the Article at The Christian Science Monitor
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2011/0813/Berlin-Wall-turns-50-and-some-want-to-rebuild-it-barbed-wire-and-all
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<!-- TemplateBeginEditable name="content" --><p>Saturday 13 August 2011 <br />
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<font><strong>Shiny Happy Corporate People</strong></font><br />
Richard (RJ) Eskow, Campaign for America's Future: "Mitt Romney got a lot of press for telling a heckler at the Iowa State Fair that 'corporations are people'... Here's the paradox in this whole concept of 'corporate personhood.' When it comes to rights, Republicans say corporations are people. But when it comes to the responsibilities of personhood - like paying taxes, being sued for negligence or criminal manslaughter, that sort of thing - their response is 'Are you crazy? We're talking about corporations here, not people.'" <br />
<a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=ZKaZdQFBxvKKs5Xq%2FBtg%2F7swRZ6v%2Bvai"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>Twelve Unions Tell Democrats They'll Boycott Convention in N. Carolina</strong></font><br />
Tim Funk and Kirsten Valle Pittman, McClatchy Newspapers: "Casting North Carolina as an anti-union bastion with 'regressive policies aimed at diluting the power of workers,' more than a dozen trade unions affiliated with the national AFL-CIO have told the Democratic National Committee that they will sit out the 2012 convention in Charlotte, N.C. Coming on the heels of some liberals' complaints that President Barack Obama is giving in to Republicans, the unions' decision is another sign that key Democratic allies are unhappy with Obama and other party leaders as they gear up for a difficult election season." <br />
<a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=gcy5AcVuwh6EE7HCkc9CZ7swRZ6v%2Bvai"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>Israeli Tent Protests Ignore Link Between Neoliberalism, Occupation</strong></font><br />
Max Ajl, Truthout: "Complaints started in response to rapid increases in the price of cottage cheese, moved on to the housing crisis and have spread to the general crisis: a country... which is the second-most-unequal industrialized democracy on the planet. It is yet early, but two things seem clear. One, this movement will not break the Israeli structure of power. Two, this is an early fracture - a foretaste of later ruptures - within Zionism." <br />
<a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=EVZ1xw2JQ7fTN9XjO3BPTbswRZ6v%2Bvai"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>Kansas' Planned Parenthood Defunding Faces Federal Scrutiny</strong></font><br />
Brad Cooper, McClatchy Newspapers: "Kansas' decision to take federal family planning funds away from Planned Parenthood has put the state in a vise. On one side, the state is facing a legal assault from Planned Parenthood, which contends it is being punished because it advocates for abortion rights. And Kansas is getting squeezed by the federal government, which is concerned about ensuring access to family planning services in certain areas of the state. If Kansas can't satisfy the government's concerns, it will be at risk of losing all or part of nearly $3 million in family planning funds."<br />
<a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=XsNv8z313HrxiMKQBvzwW7%2FMOx%2BxQT%2Bv"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>Torture in the US Prison System: The Endless Punishment of Leonard Peltier</strong></font><br />
Preston Randolph and Dan Battaglia, Truthout: "News reports from California's Pelican Bay Prison amplified the need for change, but after the three-week inmate hunger strike ended, the torture of solitary confinement continues nationwide... In 1977, American Indian activist Leonard Peltier was convicted of murdering two FBI agents during a shootout on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. Peltier has now served more than 35 years in federal prison. His trial remains one of the most controversial in the history of the American judicial system." <br />
<a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=QjULA7bqINHqr6h3VtrhK7swRZ6v%2Bvai"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>Could Unspent Stimulus Money Be Used to Fend Off a New Recession?</strong></font><br />
Michael Grabell, ProPublica: "The nation's top economists are already giving odds on a double-dip recession... So, it seems all the more surprising that the federal government still has $100 billion to $150 billion in stimulus money left to spend. That's about as much as the Making Work Pay tax credit that gave $800 apiece to middle-class families in 2009 and 2010. And it's twice as much as Congress gave to states to stabilize budgets and save education jobs." <br />
<a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=OSaXbhm3d4Gjwe2bMBclzbswRZ6v%2Bvai"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>Quick Retribution in London Threatens Due Process for Thousands</strong></font><br />
Bryan Gerhart, Colorlines: "As some Londoners exhale during a lull in the riots that have raged throughout the United Kingdom since Saturday night, others, particularly young Britons of color, face the hasty, heavy hand of the law. Whether the seemingly impulsive punishments continually doled out by British magistrates represent justice remains open for debate. Amidst intense public pressure, over 16,000 police officers are now on the streets of London. They've made more than 1,700 arrests... A majority of those arrested are minors, many of whom are being identified with footage from Britain's extensive network of CCTV cameras." <br />
<a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=pP2BJ1WW186VwX5%2FSPU9rrswRZ6v%2Bvai"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>The Verizon Strike as the Next Wisconsin</strong></font><br />
Mark Engler, Dissent: "The picket lines are up. This past weekend 45,000 Verizon workers on the East Coast, represented by the Communications Workers of America (CWA) and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW), went on strike.... Without a doubt, this is a conflict of national significance... The parallel to Wisconsin is apt for several reasons. First, like the Republican elected officials in their attacks on unionized schoolteachers and other public employees, Verizon is taking aim at one of the last bastions of the American middle class." <br />
<a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=ZX%2BOpveXkTElLl3YYSEyp7%2FMOx%2BxQT%2Bv"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>Will Tax Breaks for the Wealthy Trump the Common Good?: Choices Still to Be Made in the New Debt Deal</strong></font><br />
Donna Cooper and Seth Hanlon, Center for America Progress: "The compromise reached between Congress and President Obama last week requires $1 trillion in cuts from federal budget discretionary programs and an agreement to identify another $1.5 trillion in deficit reduction by Thanksgiving. But there is no agreement yet on closing tax breaks for the highest income Americans or ending tax subsidies that pad the bottom line of the most profitable companies - special tax breaks that were declared off the table by Republicans in the recent round of negotiations. Our chart details the choices still to be made." <br />
<a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=ElNqEZkBozShSC6Yf6AQw7swRZ6v%2Bvai"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>Media is Growing More White. What's the FCC Doing About It?</strong></font><br />
Jason Smith, Colorlines: "The increasing lack of racial diversity in the U.S. media landscape is becoming a hot topic and putting pressure on policy makers to (finally) pay attention. s the American Society of Newspaper Editors has reported, racial and ethnic minorities make up less than 13 percent of newsroom employees. Minority ownership of television stations hovers around 3 percent, while radio station ownership is at 7 percent, despite the fact that the minority population of the U.S. is roughly 28 percent." <br />
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<p><em>
<p>How radical and cultish are the declared Republican candidates for president?</p>
<p>The answer is clear from a question that came 48 minutes into the FOX sponsored Iowa "debate" on Thursday.</p>
<p>According to a <a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Qn0clIU4r5%2FZ86gSAEtVs7swRZ6v%2Bvai"><font color="#cc0000">TIME magazine blog of the event</font></a>, the moderator, FOX's Bret Baier, asked "everyone to raise their hand if they would oppose a debt deal that offered $10 in spending cuts for every $1 in tax increases. Everyone raises their hand, though Pawlenty's hand bobs up and down a bit."</p>
<p>In one infamous moment of ignorant and cowardly group-think the radical and destructive financially anarchistic outlook of the GOP was revealed.</p>
<p>"No new taxes (or really no taxes)" has been the lynch mob call to arms (and votes) for national Republican candidates for years, but it has reached a feverish and pernicious pitch.</p>
<p>Think about it, all the GOP candidates for the presidency (and Rick Perry and Sarah Palin would have held their hands up too, you can be sure), would turn down, let's say, a trillion in cuts in federal spending if they had to also vote for just 1/10th of that amount in tax increases on millionaires and billionaires.</p>
<p>The rational responses to this craven tomfoolery are too numerous to detail in a short commentary. Suffice it to say, the anti-tax mantra has become a political/religious symbol that defies logic or common sense. In a time when the nation is beset by enormous financial problems, it is a placebo pill that removes the challenge of finding multi-faceted and inventive solutions to an immensely complex problem.</p>
<p>By raising their hands in unison in opposition to a modest increase in taxes on the most wealthy, big oil, and hedge funds (because that is whom a $1 in tax increases for $10 in revenue would likely affect), the GOP candidates affirmed themselves as snake oil salesmen. And snake oil doesn't cure anything; it only enriches the person selling it (or in this case, might help them attain the power to run America).</p>
<p>As the TIME blog noted at 121 minutes into the exchange in Iowa, "Baier mercifully ends it all."</p>
<p>But unfortunately, it was only the debate that concluded. The long delusional nightmare for America continues.</p>
<p>Mark Karlin<br />
Editor, BuzzFlash at Truthout</p>
</em></p>
<p><strong>Oy Vey: Rick Perry Officially Announces Run for President<br />
</strong><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=cZ7sV7nqOuz4Bb0YIVDmC7swRZ6v%2Bvai" target="_blank"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article at The Huffington Post</font></a></p>
<p><strong>US Censures Report on Drone Casualties<br />
</strong><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=ACQcJyyWwoXJZBqz%2F8JZebswRZ6v%2Bvai" target="_blank"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article at Al Jazeera</font></a></p>
<p><strong>San Francisco Subway Shuts Down Cell Service During Protest<br />
</strong><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=9O2xgk2Ru61EBhpiVTOfObswRZ6v%2Bvai" target="_blank"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article at CNet News</font></a></p>
<p><strong>Cameron Recruits Ex-US Police Commissioner<br />
</strong><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=4SkyPX17F63bHIHwHNlfDrswRZ6v%2Bvai" target="_blank"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article at Bloomberg</font></a></p>
<p><strong>American Kidnapped From His House in Pakistan<br />
</strong><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=0MjrkXna3vsDzHJ4yZW0cLswRZ6v%2Bvai" target="_blank"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article at The LA Times </font></a></p>
<p><strong>Syrian Tanks Deploy in Coastal Cities Amid Shooting<br />
</strong><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=HS1JPTyiORQHmIFugNBUrLswRZ6v%2Bvai" target="_blank"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article at Yahoo! News</font></a></p>
<p><strong>The Berlin Wall Turns 50, and Some Want to Rebuild It<br />
</strong><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=xazArQBrNKFLD1KvDYNehrswRZ6v%2Bvai" target="_blank"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article at The Christian Science Monitor</font></a></p>
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